Thursday, January 10, 2019

Pigs Fly Over Italy and Poland As They Plan A ‘European Spring’

News that
Italy and Poland are discussing plans to form a united front to overthrow the
French-German axis that controls Europe is an indication of how their leaders
are not only utterly deluded but also they haven’t been paying attention to recent
history.

Italian Deputy
Prime Minister Matteo Salvini met with Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz
Morawieki, where they announced plans to give the European Union a new energy and
new equilibrium to replace the dominant French-German axis and overhaul the
Brussels institutions from within.

Either these
politicians are extremely naïve, or they are completely ignorant of what the
European Union is and how it works. The EU is a political project and the course
is set for ‘ever closer union’ toward a single, centrally controlled sovereign state.
It does not negotiate, and it does not tolerate dissent.

The Italians
should know better than anyone since the unelected EU bureaucrats dismissed the
democratically elected government of Silvio Berlusconi and replaced it with
Brussels appointed technocrats because he suggested giving the Italian people a
referendum.

Italy is
treated as a second-class nation with an impotent government in what is
supposed to be a Union of equals.

In neighboring
Greece their impotent government is controlled by a troika of Brussels appointed
technocrats who refuse to accept a budget that alleviates the suffering of the
Greek people.

As is the
case in Italy, attempts to pass a budget that doesn’t get the approval of German
Chancellor, Angela Merkel, fail every time thus prolonging the poverty and
misery of the Greek and Italian people for decades to come.

The plan to
reform the EU institutions from within is so delusional its laughable. On three
occasions the British government has tried to reform the EU from within to no avail.

Margaret
Thatcher did have a small success with her budget rebate which lasted until Prime
Minister, Tony Blair, negotiated it away in exchange for institutional reforms on which the EU promptly
reneged.

If that isn’t
enough proof to convince the leaders of Italy and Poland to get real and stop deluding themselves, they should look at the current Brexit negotiations.

Despite
having two of the biggest mandates in history to leave the EU the British
people are still bound hand and foot to the supranational institution after two
years of negotiations.

It must be
admitted that incompetent leadership by a Europhile Prime Minister has given the
EU bureaucrats the upper hand, but they have remained resolute that Brexit will
not deflect the nation building project from its course.

To bring the
leaders of Italy and Poland down from cloud cuckoo-land and back into the real world of EU
power, Great Britain is the fifth largest economy on the planet, it is
the third biggest contributor to the EU budget, it is a nuclear power with its
own seat on the UN Security Council and yet it has failed time and again to reform
the EU from within.

Italy and
Poland are economic basket cases and two of the biggest recipients of EU funds,
so they need to explain what leverage they have and how do they plan to succeed
where Great Britain has failed?

In
conclusion: The EU cannot be reformed, it does not negotiate with bankrupt
nations with unstable governments and they will wipe the floor with any nations
that try.

The only
possible way for Italy, Poland, and any other nation that wants to free itself
from French-German domination and take control of its own destiny, is to join
the British people and leave the corrupt and increasingly authoritarian EU and join
an alliance of independent sovereign nations.See related article here